One of the best pieces of advice I ever received in my life was to avoid speaking about things about which you know little to nothing. It was a now-deceased, old-style Jesuit who told me this. He also warned me that expertise in one area doesn’t translate into an authority to speak about everything else.
I couldn’t help recalling this counsel recently when reading in the American Jesuits’ flagship magazine, America, an article entitled “A Call to Virtue” by the distinguished economist Jeffery Sachs. Here Professor Sachs argued that another old-style Jesuit—Pope Francis—will be coming to an America uninterested in virtue, mired in consumerism, and fast becoming a hyper-individualistic society obsessed with rights
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